![]() ![]() If the public does not have sufficient understanding of the proposed actions, then attempts to gauge their opinion, their choice of options or their understanding of the consequences is made tenuous. If the public is not educated about the decisions being made about their future then transparency is not the whole issue that faces us. If transparency in our government is to be achieved, it will depend in no small measure upon an educated public. This is where the TNRd cats are living today Posted in Uncategorized Eartipped and Abandoned This is where the TNRd cats get their food now that their ‘caretaker’ moved away. This is what a Zero Accountability Proposal looks like. You’ll notice the left ear on all cats are clipped. These are dark times for homeowners, their pets and for wildlife in Wichita.īelow are some of the cats we were able to photograph. Even if their Advisory boards all vote no. It is difficult to fathom that an advisory board to an Animal Care division could stray so far from it’s stated purpose to protect animals welfare that they, and their misguided adherents, would support a proposal that puts animals in such danger, not to mention the danger to human and wild life in our city.Īnd despite all of this, remember that City Council members are still free to vote yes for this very proposal. When I spoke to a state official about this incident at licensing they agreed that this was something that they should probably look at.Īnd now in Wichita we are looking at the possibility or our City Council members voting to approve an ordinance that would let these groups operate legally and with zero oversight or accountability of their activities. She seemed unconcerned that by releasing cats to an individual (if they were in fact released to a caretaker) who cannot legally have cats on their lease, the TNR group is skating dangerously close to violating Kansas State StatuteĢ1-6412 (2) knowingly abandoning any animal in any place without making provisions for its proper care. When I mentioned this at a DAB discussion on TNR, the president of Friends of Felines Shrugged her shoulders and said that this occasionally happens, people will move away and cats will be without a caretaker. We spoke to the owners of the apartments and they said that tenants are not allowed to have pets. We interviewed neighbors who told us that a silver SUV had shown up loaded with traps and released the cats in the apartments. ![]() When we walked into these basements we saw cats leap to a hole in the wall and disappear. The cats were living in the basements of these buildings as all of the basement doors were ajar and would not shut. We spoke to a family across from her who said the family that had been taking care of these cats had moved away a couple of weeks ago and the cats were now eating out of the dumpsters and that this woman would occasionally leave food out for them. In fact ear tipped cats were running around but they were not this woman’s cats. ![]() A pregnant cat lurked nearby as the kittens poked their heads out at us from the door of the apartment. We knocked on the door and was met by 2 kittens and an elderly woman who was not able to say much more than she was being helped by a group to spay and neuter the cats. One unit had a portion of the steps pulled away which revealed two holes large enough for the cats to enter for shelter. We saw several cats (below) running around the lot between buildings. So along with an individual who runs a spay neuter clinic and an animal rescue in town we went to see for ourselves how bad it was. So I decided to go and take a look at the environs and speak with this gentleman. And this is how I learned about the Keystone Apartments in Wichita’s District 3. Friends of Felines do not trap cats during kitten season because they don’t want to take mothers from their kittens.Īnd so out of desperation this homeowner retrieved a handgun, went out into his yard and, allegedly, attempted to shoot the cat. He did so, hoping that he could at last recover the respite provided by his home, but was told, again, that he could not be helped. On the day that he called Animal Services one of his dogs had done just this, resulting in the animal being hit by a car.Īnimal Services told him that they would not come out as they had no one available and that he should call Friends of Felines instead. They were also constantly in his yard, setting his dogs off and causing them to jump through the screened windows. These cats were finding their way into a house on the property next to his by climbing a tree and entering through the roof. A few months back a homeowner called Animal Services in Wichita asking for someone to come to his block and do something about the number of cats that were running wild in his neighborhood. ![]()
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